60 Freeway car-to-car shooting injures 1 near South El Monte

Shattered glass cut a driver early Saturday morning after an unknown person fired a shotgun through the man’s car window while driving by on the eastbound 60 Freeway near South El Monte.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of shots fired shortly after midnight Saturday, but could not originally locate anyone injured. Not long after, the California Highway Patrol let them know they were with a man whose windows were blown out by a shotgun. Shards of glass cut the man and left him with minor injuries, according to Sgt. Lynette O’Brien, with LASD’s Temple City station.

The unidentified injured man, in his early 20s, did not know why he was attacked, O’Brien said.

“It may have been a situation of road rage, it didn’t appear to be gang-related at all,” O’Brien said. “He may have cut the car off, but he wasn’t sure. We’re thumbing for information on that.”

The driver believed the shots came from a dark-colored sedan, O’Brien said. She noted the attack may have been random.